Unix Tutorial Digest – December 1st, 2019
November 2019 has been rather slow here on the blog – lots of projects at work ahead of the usual change freezes and upcoming holiday season. I’m regularly bookmarking things that can become interesting projects, so expect it to be a very educational Christmas season – lots of things to learn and to try in Unix Tutorial world.
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Unix and Linux News
I have started a new category on Unix Tutorial – called New Releases, that’s where OS upgrades and Linux kernel releases will be announced going forward (they’re still blog posts).
- Linux Kernel 5.4 is here
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 released
- OpenIndiana 2019.10 arrived
- Debian 10.2 released
Software News
- Brave 1.0 browser got finally released – I’m a daily user and find it pretty great, although ads are still annoying and intrusive – so definitely room for improvement
- GitHub launched Security Lab
- PHP 7.4 released
- Glimpse 0.1.0 is out – this is a fork of the GIMP graphics editor, easily the most well know and powerful open source editor. Will be interesting to follow the direction the new team is taking.
Interesting and Useful
- Tips for choosing a laptop – good summary for someone looking to buy a laptop
- TPM Fail made the news in November – scary!
- Google shared plans to use standard Linux Kernel in Android
- RIPE has run out of IPv4 addresses – global IPv6 usage is still nowhere near enough (around 30% this year) to get by without IPv4
Unix Tutorial articles
Full list of posts published on Unix Tutorial in September/October 2019:
- Linux Kernel 5.4
- Black Friday Deals
- Check Config Before Restarting SSH Daemon
- Upgrading RHEL 8 to RHEL 8.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1
- OpenIndiana 2019.10 Released
- brew cask vs brew formula
- Automating macOS Screenshots with Hazel
- Show Mounted Filesystems of Certain Type
- Unix Tutorial Digest – November 5th, 2019
That’s it for the month of November 2019!